You asked and we've delivered: for the past few months, we've been hard at work on an updated edition of our annual salary survey. Each fall for the past 11 years, we have collected and reported on design and creative salaries from thousands of people around the world. Today we're excited to unveil our brand new Design Salary Guide (f.k.a. Coroflot Salary Survey), completely redesigned and rebuilt for 2012 to complement the new Coroflot. Here are some of the highlights:

- We have a pool of over 20,000 data points, with meaningful data on dozens of job titles from around the world.
- The new guide is a rolling tool, available year-round and reporting the results in real-time.
- We've expanded our range to include over 50 job titles—there's something for everyone!
- We're collecting data on a city level, which allows us to report results on a more granular, hyper-local scale (in addition to broader trends).
- You can now enter freelance hourly rates, and in turn we now report on freelance hourly rates.
- We collect and report on salaries and hourly rates in local currencies around the world.
- Our sweet new charting tool shows the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile of earnings at all times. If we have enough data, we split it up into more detail.

We're also excited to announce a forthcoming set of infographics describing non-monetary aspects of design employment, such as insurance benefits, job mobility and educational profiles. These charts will help paint a picture of the industry as a whole, so keep your eyes peeled for Salary Guide news—we're looking to publish those infographics in three weeks or so.

For now, we invite you to take a peek around and add your info. And of course, share it with your friends!

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7 Comments

Can detailed results not be viewed with adding information?
I'm a student without salary information to add, but I'm interested in viewing detailed results. Is it meant only for those currently working in the field?

Why are you not able to filter like you could in the past. It is nice to view by state but for people that work in states that are not New York and California it was nice to see it by region. Sure hope these features are still coming.

Didn't know Coroflot offers a salary guide. Finding out about this is great! Perhaps it would be great to incorporate the relation between salary and years of experience. This is especially helpful for me as junior designer.
Last July I graduated and started my job search. I currently work in the Netherlands and a lot of my (former) fellow students are tricked into some kind of trainee ship and only earn 300 EUR/month (380 USD/month). A dutch salary indicator helped me to estimate/demand a proper full-time payment. This indicator showed the relation between years of experience and salary (see http://www.loonwijzer.nl)
Furthermore the Coroflot salary guide doesn't mention the inclusion or exclusion of income tax. I don't know about people in other countries but as junior I loose about 30% of my income on income tax. A simple note if the salary estimates are displayed with or without tax would clarify this issue.

I found the titles I was looking for under job titles, I think my confusion comes from the primary area of concentration section which doesn't seem to include a category that encompasses interaction design or UX design. In previous years there was an interaction design category, now there is interior design, industrial design and web design. I don't know how I could classify interaction design under one of the current areas of concentration... Why not bring back the interaction design category, then you would also have more information about User Experience designers and interactions designers at the job title level.

Tucker - This year we added a number of job titles, among other changes. We now have "Product Designer" and "User Experience Designer"as job titles, along with "Visual Designer" and "Mobile App Developer". The results are displayed according to job title rather than the larger categories, as the more granular level is more relevant to people. I'm sure we don't have every job title possible, so if yours is not on the list you'll have to look at a few that are as close as possible.
Also, keep in mind that 30+ of these job titles are new, and we don't have any data for them at this point. Once there are three entries for any job title or location, then it will appear in our list as a link to a results page. So if you don't see your job listed then please add your information so that we'll get a link to it as soon as possible.

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